Operators

Care home operators and groups

1,616 multi-home care operators across England, with portfolio size, bed stock and rating profile. The view a buyer, lender or investor reads before an acquisition, refinance or consolidation.

1,616

Multi-home operators

8,641

Care homes in groups

272,179

Registered beds

Counties covered

The UK care home market is consolidating, with well-capitalised investors increasingly buying platforms and whole companies rather than single homes. We track every multi-home operator CQC registers in England, the portfolio size, bed stock and rating profile that frame a covenant. We arrange the finance behind these moves: portfolio acquisition, whole-company funding, refinancing, development capital and sale-and-leaseback.

This is finance for the operator and the asset, not help with paying care fees. The operators below are listed largest by bed count.

Largest operators

The biggest care home groups by bed stock

The 40 largest multi-home operators we track in England.

Operator	Homes	Beds	Counties	Good+
Care UK Care Services Limited	226	15,411	37	92%
Barchester Healthcare Homes Limited	207	13,154	40	88%
Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd	105	7,371	24	93%
Anchor Hanover Group	112	5,954	26	85%
HC-One Limited	105	5,376	20	84%
Willowbrook Healthcare Limited	49	4,439	17	89%
Scarborough Hall Limited	69	4,268	30	100%
Sanctuary Care Limited	77	3,899	24	95%
Runwood Homes Limited	55	3,879	9	82%
Methodist Homes	63	3,294	32	89%
WT UK Opco 4 Limited	37	2,961	18	96%
The Orders Of St. John Care Trust	54	2,895	6	91%
HC-One No.1 Limited	33	2,605	18	79%
Prime Life Limited	51	2,002	9	80%
Aria Healthcare Group LTD	35	1,974	19	89%
Voyage 1 Limited	227	1,799	35	90%
Bupa Care Homes (ANS) Limited	26	1,765	13	92%
Willow Tower Opco 1 Limited	16	1,658	9	94%
Minster Care Management Limited	26	1,542	15	79%
Advinia Care Homes Limited	10	1,461	5	40%
Avery Homes (Nelson) Limited	17	1,452	11	76%
Quantum Care Limited	19	1,313	3	94%
Bupa Care Homes (CFChomes) Limited	23	1,273	14	87%
Bondcare (London) Limited	17	1,264	9	88%
Akari Care Limited	23	1,236	8	96%
Ideal Carehomes (Number One) Limited	19	1,154	9	94%
DHCH14 Limited	22	1,150	4	84%
Greensleeves Homes Trust	24	1,098	12	67%
HC-One No.2 Limited	16	1,090	3	100%
Healthcare Homes Group Limited	24	1,086	5	83%
Country Court Care Homes 2 Limited	18	1,086	10	88%
Bupa Care Homes (BNH) Limited	24	1,077	11	79%
Somerset Care Limited	18	1,043	1	94%
Achieve Together Limited	129	1,037	24	82%
Colleycare Limited	16	986	5	75%
MMCG (2) Limited	12	956	6	70%
Harbour Healthcare (North) Ltd	17	952	9	88%
Signature Senior Lifestyle Operations Ltd	10	933	4	100%
Hampshire County Council	18	914	2	94%
Olympus Opco LTD	15	911	6	73%

Source: Care Quality Commission care directory, 03 June 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

All operators

Every multi-home operator, A to Z

All 1,616 care home groups we track.

FAQ

UK care home operators: common questions

Who is the largest care home operator in the UK?

By the bed stock we track from CQC data, Care UK Care Services Limited is among the largest, with about 226 homes and 15,411 registered beds. The picture shifts as the big REIT-backed groups acquire portfolios, so the ranking here reflects the latest CQC snapshot.

Who are the big five care home providers?

The largest groups by registered beds in our data are Care UK Care Services Limited, Barchester Healthcare Homes Limited, Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd, Anchor Hanover Group, HC-One Limited. Names such as Barchester, HC-One, Care UK, Bupa and Avery dominate the upper end, several now backed by healthcare REITs after recent consolidation.

Who owns the majority of care homes in the UK?

No single group does. The market is highly fragmented: we track 1,616 operators running two or more homes, and the ten largest hold only a modest share of the national bed stock. That fragmentation is exactly why platform and whole-company acquisition dominates sector M&A.

How many care home operators are there?

CQC registers thousands of providers in England. We list 1,616 operators running two or more care homes; the long tail of single-home operators is far larger again.

Acquiring or refinancing a care home group?

Send us the deal and we will come back with a view on fundability and likely terms.